"Not that a poem can "hurt" someone the same way a physical blow can or even a mean remark can...I just felt unsure that my tone would be taken the right way and/or unsure of my own writing, that I couldn't maintain the tone I wanted."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Denise Duhamel

#Hurt Quotes #Taken Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.”
“We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws. [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]”
“But treat dimes fair and I'm bigger than the city lights down in times square”
“Their [artists'] essential effort is to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any idea where they will end up. They are like riders who gallop into the night, eagerly leaning on their horse's neck, peering into a blinding rain. And they have to do it over and over again.”

Source : Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
“I like The Beatles and I like The Kinks and I like The Rolling Stones and I like Led Zeppelin and I like Black Sabbath.”

Source : The New Yorker, September 09, 2002.
“Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with the hour of bereavement and the scenes of death suffice to show this.”
“I love being chubby because chicks that smoke pot love me. They think I have food at my house.”
“I believe that young people are looking for answers to the big questions just like everyone else, and that they respect intelligent comment to help guide them through tough times.”

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